Images taken mostly in Simonstown and Noordhoek in the Cape peninsula. Simonstown has amazing granite boulders in the se, which can look rather fine in the early rising eastern sun.
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A series of spindly things in the water around the British coastline, from Shoeburiness (next to Godliness) to Clevedon.
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Shot mostly in Madrid, probably my favourite European City. Unlike London, where the people that you see don’t live there and have no character anyway, Madridilenos actually live in their city and actually look interesting. Many of these shots were taken with a 45mm f 1.8 Olympus lens, which is a a 90 mm full frame equivalent. It’s been part of my journey to the magnificent 75mm f-18 which is my current favourite Street portrait lens.
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Having said that I don’t take photographs of London street life, here are some. They were all taken quite a while ago, before the city became hollowed out of its former character.
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I can’t bring myself to take Street photographs of the fresh-faced and clueless tourists or office workers that comprise 90% of the people you see in London. But on numerous successive visits to the Far East I started to realise that the experience etched on the faces of particularly the women told quite a profound story. I’ve experimented with all sorts of different perspectives to try and get the flavour of this which is all about the eyes and the face. In the end I hit upon the Olympus 75mm f-18 lens which is the equivalent of a full-frame frame 150mm focal length. This enables me to focus in on the face whilst blurring out the background and other extraneous features. There are a whole lifetimes described in those eyes.
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The lady crab catchers of Kep on the Cambodian south coast. These stylish and tough women walk out in colourful head-to-toe outfits to bring in the crab baskets and supply the fishing boats.
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Shot in and around Cape Town. Many of the images were shot the day after Nelson Mandela died, and showed the emotional hold he had on the population. I don’t think anyone there had any idea how bad it was all going to get afterwards.
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My street photography hero is the late, great, Tony Ray-Jones, the inspriation behind Martin Parr and almost all the other observers of the British by the sea. I don’t spend much time at the seaside, but these have been my observations. South Africa it happens is quite close to how a british beach may have been in the ’50s, so it’s quite a fruitful hunting ground if you like that kind of thing.
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Taken in Myanmar, Vietnam and Cambodia, before I discovered the wonder of the 75mm lens.
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We are fortunate to live in a private 10 acre Japanese water garden of great antiquity. It’s a huge privilege to have somewhere as tranquil and beautiful in front of us but it has turned out to be quite difficult to photograph. This is largely because there is so much stuff there that photographs tend to be just full of detail and are often compositionally disappointing. After 10 years of trying I think I have started to get the hang of it which is to employ the time-honored method of leaving as much out of the image as possible. Almost all of these images are taken handheld with my Olympus E-_M1 Mark II. I have made prints of many of them at 3-ft by 2-ft dimensions and they look really good, which further cements my view that this camera is the best one I’ve ever owned.
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